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HFile: A Block-Indexed File Format to Store Sorted Key-Value Pairs Sep 10, 2009 Schubert Zhang (schubert.zhang@) 1. Introduction HFile is a mimic of Google’s SSTable. Now, it is available in Hadoop HBase-0.20.0. And the previous releases of HBase temporarily use an alternate file format – MapFile [4], which is a common file format in Hadoop IO package. I think HFile should also become a common file format when it becomes mature, and should be moved into the common IO package of Hadoop in the future. Following words of SSTable are from section